San Antonio Liederkranz marks twenty five years with Beethoven Hall concert
The San Antonio Liederkranz, Texas’s premier singing society, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a July 26 concert at Beethoven Hall at 8 o’clock. The program features the choir, Miss Mary Aubrey, Miss Josephine Lucchesse, and piano accompanist, plus selections from operas and oratorios and a history of the group tracing to 1892 under Rev. H Pfefferkorn and later leaders.
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San Antonio
Lizzie Lehman
Oran Kirkpatrick
Mary Aubrey
Franz Abt
San Antonio Liederkranz
The
Liederkranz
H. Pfefferkorn
St. Joseph's Church
J. C. Dielmann
Alois Tarrillion
Albert Wietzel
William Herring Sr
J. F. Ripps
J. Kurz
Henry Umscheid
M. Hahn
A- Barlemann
George Mandry
H. Lamm
H. Jaeckle
Otto Hilgers
Hilgers
Texas Saengerbund
Houston
W. J. Wietzel
Singing Societies of
Texas
der Bergsee
Walde
Ed Hermes
Galveston
Austin
Dallas
Wich
Music in the Churches Evening Concert and Service Program
A Sunday evening concert at First Baptist Church invites soldiers to attend with vocal and violin solos, trios, quartets and duets. Dr. Porter gives a short address. Morning and evening services at First Baptist and Christ Church (Episcopal) feature orchestral and choral selections, hymns, solos by Martha Matthews, Maud Cunyus, R. R. Carlyle, and others with organ and offertory pieces, Processional Benedictus and Recessional selections.
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First Baptist Church
8. J. Porter
Pollitt Anth
Scone Offeriory
Saint Saens
Guilmant Solo
Hyman
Ceerun
Woodward
Cset Tasco
Reichardt
Martha Matthews
Romberg Duct
Gardner
Carlyle
de Koven
Ashford
Harry Leap
R. R. Carlyle
Christ Church
Epispeut
oFendoaks
Offetory
Lord Jesus
Matthews Frank Wohn
Musical program aids Red Cross at First United Presbyterian
A benefit program at the First United Presbyterian Church Locust and Ogden Streets on Friday July 13 raised fourteen dollars. Directed by Gladys Merrylees and Helen Hoefgen the event featured piano solos readings duets and a short play The End of the War. Future plans include expanded F M Musical Club activities and a Lyceum course at San Marcos Normal with Arthur Claassen Mary Aubrey and Oran Kirkpatrick set for July 21.
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the Red Cross
First United Presbyterian Church
Locust
Ogden Streets
Gladys Merrylees
Helen Hoefgen
Mildred Dollinger
Sarah Karcher
F. M. Musical Club
Wolf & Marx
Elizabeth Black
Eva Wolff
Eleanor Keller
Ethel Mae Murphy
Carl Hahn
Louise Gill
Mattie
Misses Ruth Helen Biggar
Pauline Feller
Helen Fraig
Rose Keulman
Fannie Newding
Eva Wolf
Eva Comstock
Marguerite Carrajal
Ida Machat
Pete Grace Gilland
Elizabeth Blac
San Marcos Normal
Arthur Claassen
Mary Aubrey
Oran Kirkpatrick
Claassen
Iss Aubrey
Kirkpatrick
Fredericksburg
Comfort
Boerne
Aged Couple Plans Quiet Wedding After Lifelong Friendship
Illiam T. Wetmore, 73, of 7643 Lowe Avenue, and Marion Wetmore, also 73 and his brother's widow, plan to wed after sixty eight years of friendship. Wetmore a Civil War veteran widower, seeks to secure his pension for Marion. Both have grown children and live with them. they insist they are not foolish and seek a small home for their final years.
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Illiam T. Wetmore
Lowe Avenue
Marion Wetmore
Chicago Tribune
Mr. Wetmore
Infantry and division structure in the European war context
Washington July 14 report outlines infantry as the core arm of the army and describes a typical infantry division under the National Defense Act. It notes a 28,334 enlisted strength, wagon and motor train lengths, and armament including field guns, howitzers, machine guns, rifles, and pistols.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Engineers
General Staff
France
Cheir Married Life! A child's illness ruse exposed
Warren and Helen wake to find Winifred feigning sickness to miss school. Helen presses for truth, while Warren suspects the ploy as the child admits the ruse. The scene ends with discipline planned and a lighthearted acknowledgment of the clever lie.
Miss Gladys Kersey Wins Musical Contest
Miss Gladys Kersey of 825 Day Avenue is announced as the winner of a musical contest conducted by Mrs. Eleanor Allsbury.
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Gladys Kersey
Day Avenue
Eleanor Allsbury
Mail from US delayed by German submarines says Chicago business man
Albert Marcher of New York, visiting Chicago, claims the British censor cites damaged mail sea water as the cause of late Scandinavian letters. He notes US mail is one to three months late there and English mail arrives two weeks late to Copenhagen. He praises Consul General Winslow’s work in Copenhagen and cites tighter checks by inspectors for US bound passengers. He also mentions dissenters lingering on ships and notes a Chile Bolivia railroad with oxygen chambers at 14 106 feet.
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Scandinavia
Chicago
Albert Marcher
New York
Atlantic
Marcher
United States
England
Copenhagen
America
State Department
Stranger and Mr Chronic Exchange Gritty Banter
A brief dialogue scene shows a strained exchange where a stranger greets with friendliness and a blunt response from Mr. Chronic reveals a harsh five year absence of something sour in health.
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Mr. Chronic
Puck
Co operative Stores Across France Postwar Prospects
France may see a nationwide cooperative store system after the war as army canteens prove successful. Divisions with 12,000 to 16,000 soldiers run central and branch stores, profits fund sinking funds and aid soldiers’ families. Purchases aim for Paris and Lyons markets, with 3 to 4 percent markups and monthly divisional commerce around $28,000.
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France
United States
Milk Thief Captured by Detective’s Wife at Home
Detective Edward J. Conroy of the Third Branch wakes to find his wife Mae holding a man by the sleeve holding two milk bottles. Mae orders the suspect to the station while her husband retrieves his tub, noting this is her thirteenth arrest.
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Edward J
East One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street
Mae
New York World
Joan
Conroy
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